I like variety, which is something EV racing cannot offer. I like V4 through to V12, NA, Turbo and even the LMP Diesels. Variety is part of what makes Le Mans so amazing track side and it'll be sad when it's gone.

I assure you that's not entirely the case.

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"Trackmakers are making more slow corners and carmakers are making the cars faster in fast corners. The usual F1 stuff." -@rethla

I think some of you are judging the electricity-generation as a function of the 'grid'. I think the future of electric vehicles is having charging stations spaced out that generate their own juice without the need of the grid.

The big shift that Henry Ford caused was having your own engine and fuel supply that was independent.

Independence of the grid is the future. I also think that the roofs of the transporters can hold enough power generating tools to supply a team and car(s) for an entire weekend.

Driving up and running a weekend without plugging in should be the goal.

With Porsche having proven their point, it leaves TMG Toyota with a dilemma...race at Le Mans and try and win albeit against themselves. Leave the WEC and go Rallying instead...Or why not Lend, Lease or Sell off their old race cars (with help) to Privateer teams and keep the Hybrid class championship alive?

Privateers don't have the money or the technical resources to run one of these cars on their own, or even probably with help from the factory.

Really, the last time that privateers got their hands on factory spec cars was when Audi Sport and Panoz sold some R8s and LMP1 Roadsters to customer teams. I think that the era of customer teams, be it fully privateer or semi-factory, are pretty much over without a technological reset.

These cars make even the Audi R18 e-tron quattro and Toyota TS030 from 2013 look almost AK-47 simple. Which means that the old R8 is about as simple as a rock if you want to look at weaponry.

The new cars from Ginetta, Dallara and whoever else wants to throw their hat into the ring will be customer friendly, but they won't have hybrids.

Peugeot's efforts could probably create a customer friendly hybrid LMP1, but I know that people will also look down on their requests as "dumbing down" LMP1 tech.

Privateers don't have the money or the technical resources to run one of these cars on their own, or even probably with help from the factory.

Really, the last time that privateers got their hands on factory spec cars was when Audi Sport and Panoz sold some R8s and LMP1 Roadsters to customer teams. I think that the era of customer teams, be it fully privateer or semi-factory, are pretty much over without a technological reset.

These cars make even the Audi R18 e-tron quattro and Toyota TS030 from 2013 look almost AK-47 simple. Which means that the old R8 is about as simple as a rock if you want to look at weaponry.

The new cars from Ginetta, Dallara and whoever else wants to throw their hat into the ring will be customer friendly, but they won't have hybrids.

Peugeot's efforts could probably create a customer friendly hybrid LMP1, but I know that people will also look down on their requests as "dumbing down" LMP1 tech.

With Porsche having proven their point, it leaves TMG Toyota with a dilemma...race at Le Mans and try and win albeit against themselves. Leave the WEC and go Rallying instead...Or why not Lend, Lease or Sell off their old race cars (with help) to Privateer teams and keep the Hybrid class championship alive?

I have a feeling that with Murata now head of TMG and him being the proponent of the hybrid, that TMG may be heading towards offering a customer option for a hybrid system. If not then there is another story to unfold with his promotion.

I wouldn't call Oreca a privater team in the conventional sense. They were basically a fourth factory car in all but name in 2010 and early 2011. From LM onwards, I'd agree with your assessment, but they were pretty much another factory 908 until then.

With Porsche having proven their point, it leaves TMG Toyota with a dilemma...race at Le Mans and try and win albeit against themselves. Leave the WEC and go Rallying instead...Or why not Lend, Lease or Sell off their old race cars (with help) to Privateer teams and keep the Hybrid class championship alive?

They already went rallying (WRC) this year. And TMG only does the engine, apparently.

They already went rallying (WRC) this year. And TMG only does the engine, apparently.

True. And the wrc is not going to be allowing hybrids for the foreseeable future. Toyota wants to promote that and only the WEC or F1 allow hybrids right now. So imo they're staying put. They hopefully have some good competition in the future to help them with the reasons for staying aside from the hybrid aspect.